On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 12:21:35PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 12:08:04 +0100 > > From: Alexander Bluhm <alexander.bl...@gmx.net> > > > > I would like to get rid of some 2>/dev/null. > > Do we want the status=... feature in OpenBSD? > > As a general rule we don't want these non-portable extensions unless > they're widely implemented.
I know and feel the same way. But I consider 2>/dev/null in shell scripts more evil. Instead of inventing something new, I used GNU. > Do Solaris, FreeBSD or NetBSD implement this option? According to their man page, Solaris and FreeBSD don't have it. NetBSD has msgfmt=quiet which allows much more funky extensions. bluhm
